Example sentences of "[adv] and " in BNC.

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1 Some parents leap forward eagerly and some must be dragged to the battle lines .
2 It is only against this background that one can begin now to understand the behaviour of Hollywood and Broadway , of the star names who confessed so eagerly and abjectly to their previous sins and were meat and drink to the H.U.A.C. Like reformed alcoholics , they could not wait to let the world know how misguided they had been and who had led them astray .
3 She held out hope and it was taken eagerly and when with each letter the hope waned she was ready to support Mrs Browning 's own faith that death was but an extension of life and not to be feared .
4 Still , I marvel at how eagerly and easily a chub will bite , considering how shy they are in all other respects .
5 With its ethical imperatives , Idealism was perfectly suited to debate the ‘ boy labour ’ problem which was usually seen , in one way or another , as a problem of ‘ character ’ and , therefore , notions of duty , service , subordination , and so on , were eagerly and easily incorporated as desirable features in the making of the new image of youth .
6 It eagerly and uncharacteristically announced the results two days before the conference .
7 The Education Department appeared to be delighted with what they were doing with the family , and any materials required for teaching the one girl were supplied eagerly and promptly .
8 She learned quickly and eagerly and soon acquired sufficient know-how to join Anne Mowbray in the small schoolroom .
9 While nineteenth-century Catholic teaching had been suspicious of ‘ human rights ’ discourse , John embraced it eagerly and made it a central theme , greatly extending the range and number of ‘ rights ’ , including those of minorities ( 95–7 ) and refugees ( 103–8 ) .
10 He awaited a reply eagerly and was going to drop in to see her on his next leave .
11 Unfortunately those clergy who had so eagerly and diligently defended and justified the war were likely to be engulfed and damaged by the pessimism and disillusion which its failure provoked : pacifism was commonly embraced by the lollards .
12 Abie was no youngster any more , but that much he had and he would accept any task he was given — eagerly and gratefully .
13 I was excited to use it since I had only painted onto a stretched canvas once before , and I stretched it eagerly and tightly .
14 He nodded eagerly and left with his dog .
15 Certainly she talks eagerly and at length about her work , but with a clarity of thought that never wanders from the point , and an easy expertise .
16 I approached it eagerly and touched it .
17 He turned on her eagerly and Maggie realised she had set herself an embarrassing trap and walked right into it .
18 But Melody had her face turned up to him eagerly and he remembered other details of Boz 's wedding night party : his meeting with Melody 's mother and the small , shabby tent that was her home .
19 For the first time — and it 's about time — we see Bertie Wooster as he really is , a bungling destroyer of sensibility , eagerly and inanely driving his men on to set up an advanced cricket pitch 100 miles behind enemy lines . ’
20 He took it eagerly and , still holding it , asked , ‘ What about dinner tonight ? ’
21 He took the paper eagerly and folded it carefully into his wallet .
22 IAT 's Air Tournament International 92 is being held at the A&AEE Boscombe Down on the 13th and 14th , and promises more than 400 aircraft taking part statically and in each day 's eight-hour flying display .
23 Sour old Mr Piggott , who had looked in at St Andrew 's , let fall an ejaculation quite unsuitable to its surroundings , and emerging from the vestry door , crunched purposefully and maliciously upon a piece of coke to relieve his feelings .
24 The primary phase should help pupils to learn to understand themselves , their relationships with others and the world around them ; should stimulate their curiosity and teach them to apply it purposefully and usefully ; and should develop the foundations for later learning and those personal qualities and attitudes which , if acquired during the primary phase , provide a sound base for what follows .
25 Hugh would get up purposefully and drive into Mondano , returning with a large number of bread rolls and a few croissants over which the children quarrelled .
26 Surprise does n't register , instead , Devito plunges an eight-inch carving knife purposefully and repeatedly into the victim 's stomach .
27 I walk unhurried but purposefully and , with gratified surprise but with recognition , I come across the house I have been seeking .
28 Our thanks are also , of course , extended to , who has so professionally , purposefully and cheerfully dealt with hiccups such as the extra numbers at the first seminar and so on .
29 Surprise does n't register , instead , Devito plunges an eight-inch carving knife purposefully and repeatedly into the victim 's stomach .
30 I WOULD rather take my children into the main bar or lounge of a pub and expect them to sit sensibly and reasonably quietly so that we can all relax , drink , talk and eat in a proper pub atmosphere .
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